Basic Biographical Details

Name:

Andrew Rennie Crawford

Designation:

Architect

Born:

10 April 1874

Died:

28 July 1933

Bio Notes:

Andrew Rennie Crawford was born on 16 April 1874 at 11 Callender Place, Govanhill, the son of Robert Nicholson Crawford and his wife Jeannie Rennie. He served his apprenticeship with David Thomson of Glasgow from August 1889, attending the Glasgow School of Art and the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College under Professors Rait, Rourdon and Gourlay and art masters Smith, Griffen, Dunlop and King. He commenced independent practice in Glasgow in 1896, seemingly initially in partnership with his father, but soon thereafter practising on his own in West Nile Street.

Around 1903 he took David Veitch into partnership, a branch office being opened at 50 Templehill, Troon. Veitch married Crawford's sister Janet at Dixon Hall, Cathcart Road, Govanhill on 22 December 1908. A R Crawford & Veitch were architects to the Burgh of Cathcart, an appointment which ended when Cathcart became part of Glasgow in the boundary extensions of 1912. The practice appears to have closed thereafter: its business had mainly been tenements, the building of which had been brought to an abrupt close by the Finance Act of 1909.

Crawford was elected LRIBA in the mass intake of 20 July 1911, his proposers being Robert William Horn, George Sinclair and John Fairweather. Sometime thereafter he obtained the appointment of chief valuer in Glasgow City Assessor's Department, a post he held for seventeen years until his death from arterio sclerosis on 28 July 1933 at 23 Rhannan Road, Glasgow. He was buried at Cathcart and was survived by his wife Jane or Jeanie Orr, whom he had married on 23 June 1899.

Private and Business Addresses

The following private or business addresses are associated with this architect:

Address

Type

Date from

Date to

Notes

295, Crown Street, Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland

Private

1890 *

132, West Nile Street, Glasgow, Scotland

Business

Before 1896

1897 or 1898

7, Kenmure Street, Pollokshields, Glasgow, Scotland

Private

1897 *

101, West Nile Street, Glasgow, Scotland

Business

1897 or 1898

After 1911

Markunda Villa, Cathcart, Glasgow, Scotland

Private

1899 *

Sir James Thomson Drive, Parkhead, Glasgow, Scotland

Private

1899 or 1900 *

12, Queen's Crescent, Glasgow, Scotland

Private

1901 or 1902 *

24, Queen's Crescent, Glasgow, Scotland

Private

1904 or 1905 *

20, Queen's Crescent, Glasgow, Scotland

Private

1907 or 1908 *

Eldric, St James Road, Glasgow, Scotland

Private

1909 or 1910 *

20, Queen's Crescent, Glasgow, Scotland

Private

1910 or 1911 *

16, Queen's Crescent, Cathcart, Glasgow, Scotland

Private

1911 *

65, Clarkston Road, Cathcart, Glasgow, Scotland

Private

1914 *

* earliest date known from documented sources.

Employment and Training

Employers

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